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EAPN booklet on Social Innovation

EAPN Europe Staff — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 08:32:03 +0000

03/03/2016 - EAPN launched its new booklet The contribution of meaningful Social Innovation to reducing poverty and social exclusion in Europe in the European Parliament on the occasion of a discussion on the topic: How can Social Innovation contribute to reaching the poverty reduction target of Europe 2020? co-hosted by Hon Verónica Lope Fontagné MEP (EPP) and EAPN. Social innovation has been a ‘buzz’ term in European discourse over the past years, having been actively promoted by the European Commission, and tied to important funding lines for the national and EU level. The potential of a socially innovative approach to contribute to mitigating the consequences of the crisis, as well as to ensure better social inclusion and social cohesion in Europe, has been widely praised. However, the definition and use of the concept remain tenuous, and there is still ongoing debate regarding its merits, as well as hidden traps.

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DELIVERING SOCIAL INCLUSION THROUGH STRUCTURAL FUNDS EAPN Structural Funds Good-Practice Handbook

EAPN Europe Staff — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 14:35:35 +0000

02/02/2015 - Delivering Social Inclusion Through Structural Funds is EAPN's latest handbook for NGOs on how to use Structurals Funds for social inclusion. Compiled by EAPN Members, it outlines EAPN’s guiding principles to assess a good practice of SF-funded projects on social inclusion and showcases examples of NGO-driven projects funded by Structural Funds under the previous funding round.

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Giving a Voice to Citizens – New EAPN Handbook is out!

EAPN Europe Staff — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 13:09:29 +0000

01/10/2014 - Today, EAPN releases its handbook Giving a Voice to Citizens, addressed to EU- and national-level policy makers to help them build stakeholder engagement dialogue; ie effective decision making, that take into account all the different parties or groups impacted by the policies concerned. The handbook provides common principles, concrete tools and tips and draws on concrete practice at EU national and local levels for authorities to apply and get more effective decision-making processes.

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NEW! Updated EXPLAINER on Poverty and Inequality in the EU

EAPN Europe Staff — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 14:07:31 +0000

16/09/2014 - EAPN issues its new and long-awaited Explainer on Poverty and Inequality in the EU, an update of the Explainer of the same name issued in 2009 and one of EAPN's most popular publications. This explainer sets out to provide a simple introduction to the poverty debate. It focuses primarily on current perspectives on the nature and extent of poverty, its causes and its links to inequality. It explains how poverty is understood and measured currently in the EU, and highlights some of the shortcomings of these approaches.

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EAPN’s Explainer on Quality of Work and Employment

EAPN Europe Staff — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 15:13:32 +0000

03/02/2014 - Quality of work and employment are the cornerstone of dignified lives, free of poverty, and of cohesive, inclusive societies! Employment is a concept that holds a double value in our societies. On the one hand, it is an economic resource, providing the economy with a capable and sustainable workforce and, on the other hand, it is a vehicle for inclusion and integration, for breaking isolation and fulfilling people’s need to contribute and be relevant in the world. EAPN's new Explainer on Quality of Work and Employment in the EU focuses mainly on this second dimension, and how employment can best respond to this human and social right to dignified lives, free of poverty and exclusion.

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Towards Children’s well-being in Europe – EAPN and Eurochild’s explainer on Child Poverty in the EU

EAPN Europe Staff — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:33:56 +0000

25 million children in the European Union (EU) are at risk of poverty or social exclusion – that is one child in every four. Most of these children grow up in poor families, who are increasingly struggling to provide them with a decent life. This is a social crime in an EU that prides itself on its social model, an attack on fundamental rights and a failure to invest in people and in our future. Can the EU afford the price?

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Breaking Barriers – Driving Change – EAPN’s latest book on participation

EAPN Europe Staff — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:52:08 +0000

{jathumbnail}Breaking Barriers – Driving Change - Case studies of building participation of people experiencing poverty is the second publication by the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) highlighting members’ initiatives to strengthen the direct participation of people experiencing poverty in organisations and in policy-making.

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Active Inclusion: Making It Happen!

EAPN Europe Staff — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:10:45 +0000

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EAPN Booklet: Policy into Practice

EAPN's new booklet Active Inclusion: Making It Happen aims to explore the reality of the European Commission’s Active Inclusion Strategy...

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Wealth, Inequalities and Social Polarisation in the EU – EXPLAINER

EAPN Europe Staff — Wed, 25 May 2011 11:08:07 +0000

{jathumbnail}This publication aims to explain what wealth is and how social polarization is currently growing in the EU and worldwide, providing a whole range of statistics on these issues.

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ADEQUACY of minimum income in the EU – EXPLAINER

EAPN Europe Staff — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:17:36 +0000

{jathumbnail}This publication explains what minimum income schemes are at present throughout the EU and how and why minimum income schemes should be "adequate", i.e. for everyone to live a dignified life, as EU Member States had already committed to ensure in... 1992.

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